Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-28

! 6erful riches of
PARKWAY FLORIDA,
And declared that the natives of that
| country lived in greatest luxury. This was
enough to fan the smolderilig gold fever to
a burning fever, and Coronado and his fol-
! lowers rushed 70 the new FL Dorado They
! journeyed northward forty days til they
reached the arizona river; and still disap-
pointed. penetrated farther and farther till
they came 70 the country now comprised
| in the States of Kansas and Nebraska.
They found a beautiful region and pro-
visions in plenty but in all that toilsome
expedition had discovered no nearer APP
proach to gold than the copper breast-plate
on the breast of an Indian sachem All
| the same, however, Coronado took posses
sion OF the country in the name of the
| King of Spain and then returned to Mex
| leo. 1t is an interesting fact that captive
| Indian woman who escaped from this band
| was picked up few days later by Ferdi-
nand De Soto, thus proving that the two
| adventures were not far apart. Had they
CHANGED to meet doubtless they would have
continued together, and the whole region
would have gone into Spanish hands.
But now Coronado began to weary and
! longed for his wife and children, and de-
spite the opposition of the soldiers, he
marched them back to the City of Mexico.
There he received but cold welcome, and
| because he had failed to find the Golden
| Cities his province was taken from him.
and he died soon afterwards in obscurity
The monks who went n orth with Coronado
refused to return with him. but remained
among the Indians as missionaries. They
were murdered in short time, as were also
a number of Franciscan monks who later
went up that way The disappearance of
| these priests aed to the expedition of Es-
pigo, who was sent to look them up; but
| he was glad 10 beat hasty retreat, and
| thus the warlike tribes of the North saved
the future United States from greater
| trouble with the Spaniards.
Though the Mexican Indians used every
effort to keep secret the whereabouts of
this ancestral treasure, i'll course of years
many gold and silver mines of great rich
ness were found. The instant mine was
discovered the Spaniards-in whose hands
the cross became always a symbol of wrath
and cruelty-developed great solicitude for
the souls of the neighboring natives and
proceeded to " christianize " them after
their own peculiar fashion. Not only were
the enslaved Indians compelled TO unre-
Quilted toll, but were SC, grievously
whipped, burned, set upon by dogs and
otherwise so grievously maltreated that
five times between the years 1910 and 1880
they planned to eXterminate the hated
Spaniards. Each time their plans were
| frustrated and their condition rendered
worse, if possible, than before; until in
1880, when, goaded to frenzy, the Indians
arose in
GRAND REVOLT
And succeeded in driving their conquerors
out of that portion of Mexico. Then, fear
| full of return of the foe, they carefully
destroyed every vestige of their former
Loot tn,.N -, a1n 10 Il
mines and abandoned the neighborhood.
And to this day-unless Lieutenant Flip
| per has found it-nobody can tell exactly
the location of that once famous FL Dorado
Whether the Seven Golden Cities of an
tiquity were myth or reality. the prospects
| for substantial prosperity in northern
Mexico were never so bright as now In
stead of fabulous walls of FURNISHED gold
! studded with precious stones, there will be
miles of golden grain, starred with bios
soming fruit-trees and interpreted with
vegetable fields while cattle on thousand
hills, homes of industry, the whirr of ma
chinery and hum of busy towns give life
! to the once-silent deserts.
| Within the last two years millions of
acres of the best land in all Montezuma's
| country has passed into the hands of Amer
can syndicates-a sufficient guarantee that
they will not be long left in idleneSs Be
sides the Chicago company, with which
| Flipper is so conspicuously identified. 2
syndicate of Connecticut millionaires has
purchased 100000 acres in Sonora and Chi
huahua for grazing and agricultural pur-
poses. Included in the five million acres
| owned by the Chicago cOmpany-Which
| lies in the States of Coahuila, chihuahua
and Durango-is more than million acres
of the finest cotton land in the world. 1t
is the celebrated Laguna district, which is
annually overlooked like The Nile region.
1t is traversed by the Mexican Central and
international railroads, and is of easy
access to all the Mexican seaports, New
York, San Francisco etc. In the western
portion of Chihuahua, adjoining the older
MORMON COLONY,
& number of Utahans, disguised by the
state of things brought about by the Fed
eral Government at home, have lately
bought 235,000 acres OF magnificent agri-
cultural land. 1t does not require the ewes
of a prophet to guess what these dis
gruntled saints propose doing in their new
domain.
Nor must the Yankee socialistic colony
on the Sinaloa coast be forgotten. On the
immense tract ceded to them by the Next
can Government, the first crops are now
thrifty growing, and substantial buildings
are rapidly going up. Several hundred
Americans have come to stay in their " city
by the sea, while hundreds more are only
waiting permission from the leader, Col
a. X. Owen, to transfer their household
goods to the land of promise
Some startling stories have been widely
circulated in the United States concerning
this colony-of sickness, maiddie du pd1s
starvation and disappointment. That most
OF these tales are entirely untrue, invented
by few black sheep" of the fold-who
thought TO find paradise ready prepared.
and were disguised when it came to work
ing for a Hving-we have positive proof.
The nearly five hundred colonists now on
the ground are as happy and enthusiastic
as ever; and, so far from scratching
around trying to get money enough to come
home with as some newspapers have
lately atfirmed-the truth is that all de-
clare themselves charmed with the actual
life III their new homes, and have no dis
position to return to the United States
J However, your correspondent will soon
visit the spot, and we will investigate the
Topolobampo plan for ourselves.
One OF the strangest things in connection
with the recent earthquake shocks in Ari-
iona and Northern Mexico was the restor-
ing OF copious supplies of water TO river
. beds which have been dry as dust sirce the
memory OF man. In many portions of
; the shaken country were what is called
dry streams, meaning empty gulches,
which suddenly became raging torrents
during the rainy season. Sometimes in a
} single night these treacherous baryancas are
transformed from arid crevasses into ugly
cataracts; and railroad bridges, under
which not a drop of water had been seen
for months, have been swept away between
the passage of two trains.
} Since these beds We're once running
streams, which were turned dry, perhaps
; ages ago, by some seismic disturbance. it is
generally believed that, as they have now
been rehlled by the same agency, they NAV
remain liv5ag" streams In that case,
terrible as the recent earthquake was. it
, will prove an Invaluable blessing, since the
many gulches now filed with pure. cold
water (which were dry as powder an hour
before the shakenUp) will
TRANSFORM MILLIONS OF BARREN ACRES
Into excellent pastgrage. The Navajo In
dams, who OWE immense herds of horses.
sheep and cattle we've the greatest sufferers.
Being intensity spperstitious, they were
) frightened completely out of their scanty
stock of wits. At the first shock they
threw themselves Sat ga the ground. and
afterwards huddled like sheep in their
miserable jacais, iefEsing 20 come out till
/ "a most dead with huQgAr